Why does our culture idolize tragedy? Tragedy is tragic. More obvious words have never been spoken. We mourn tragedy every time it occurs. So then…
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Taylor Swift Wants You to Hate Her
by Valerie DiGloria October 17, 2017And other reasons we’re somehow still talking about Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift began her story innocently. She was just a girl with a dream, a…
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From Amy Schumer to Lena Dunham, white feminism cannot truly be feminism According to herself, Taylor Swift is a feminist: She’s not afraid to be…
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Is the high heel ideal empowering or restricting? I bought my first pair of grown up heels when I was 14 years old. They were…
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Examining why certain media permeate our society For as long as there has been modern media, there have been the classics. Films for creative types…
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The ramifications of idolizing politicians Recently, at Ithaca College’s All-Student Gathering, President Shirley Collado remarked that “people miss the humanity behind what it takes to…
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America’s fixation with preoccupation In the 1980s, Barbara Ehrenreich published an article in the New York Times observing the culture of “busyness” around her. The…
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Why we obsess over people we’ll never meet The word “celebrity” almost instinctively lends itself to visions of glamorous models, mansion-dwelling musicians, and questionably talented…
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Examining America’s sordid history of foreign intervention There is an American narrative as long and potent as American history. In fact, it often shapes history…
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How voluntourism perpetuates a dangerous saviorship complex When Pippa Biddle traveled to Tanzania on a service trip with her high school, she was buoyed by…